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Article Update - June 29, 2009

Oppose Coup D'etat in Honduras
• NYC: Emergency Rally in Support of Honduras
• Detroit: Demonstration to Protest the Military Coup D'état in Honduras
• ALBA, SICA and the Rio Group Organizing to Defend Honduran Democracy
• The Fascist Coup d’état Against President Zelaya is an Insult to all the Peoples — Speech by Cuba's President Raúl Castro Ruz, Rio Group Summit
• ALBA Declaration on Honduras Coup D'etat
• Non-Aligned Movement Statement
• Remarks by President Obama at Press Briefing with President Aribe
• Statement by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
• Organizations in Bolivia and Panama Protest Coup in Honduras
• Commentary and Updates on Coup in Honduras — Eva Golinger, Venezuelan Journalist, June 28, 2009

Article Update - June 28, 2009

Restore President Zelaya to Power
• Oppose the Coup D’etat in Honduras! Demand Obama Act to Stop Aid to Coup Leaders and Restore President Zelaya to Power Now! — U.S. Marxist-Leninist Organization, June 28, 2009
• Action Alert: Oppose Coup in Honduras!
• President Zelaya Speaks from Costa Rica
• Hondurans Resist Coup
• Reflections by Comrade Fidel Castro: A Suicidal Mistake
• President Obama’s Statement on Honduras
• ALBA Statement on Honduras
• Additional News on the Coup
• Venezuela and ALBA Back Honduran President Against Potential Coup — James Suggett, June 26, 2009, Venezuelanalysis.com

Article Update - June 24, 2009

Hands Off Korea!
• U.S. Efforts to Provoke War Are Crimes Against the Peace
• Major War Exercises Targeting DPRK
• U.S. "Alliance" for Aggression Opposed
• DPRK Condemns U.S. Interference in Internal Affairs of Other Countries
• Navy Plans to Turn Pacific Northwest Coast Into Target Range
• Korea Peace Campaign — Veterans for Peace
• Criminal U.S. Germ and Chemical Warfare

Article Update - June 22, 2009

Obama, Free the Cuban Five Now!
• Demonstrations Worldwide Demand: Free the Cuban Five!
• Message from René González Responding to the Supreme Court Decision
• Declaration of the Presidency of Cuba’s National Assembly on the Supreme Court’s Decision Not to Review the Cuban Five Case
• The Cuban Five: Defending the Right to Exist
• Free the Cuban Five, Mr. President — Glen Ford, Black Agenda Report
• US Reverend Demands Justice for the Cuban Five
• International Association of Democratic Lawyers Back the Cuban 5
• U.S. Has Its Own History of Terrorism Against Cuba — Keith Bolender

Article Update - June 18, 2009

Salute Juneteenth Festivals
• Celebrating Resistance and Fighting for Rights
• Juneteenth Maafa Memorials
• All Roads Lead to Juneteenth 2009
• Free the San Francisco Eight!
• African-Americans Death Rate Higher Due to Treatable and Preventable Diseases
• State Racism Means 40% of Prisoners Are African American

Article Update - June 16, 2009

Support Korean Reunification

• Eliminate the U.S. Nuclear Umbrella! Support Korean Reunification!
• Withdraw UN Security Council Resolution 1874
• U.S. Policy Toward North Korea Fails to Engage — Ronda Hauben, OhmyNews, June 12, 2009

Reports from Korean Central News Agency
• U.S. Rebuked for Escalating Tension on Korean Peninsula
• U.S. Urged to Give up Its Nuclear War Scenario
• All Koreans Called on to Open Decisive Phase for National Reunification
• Korea’s Independence Basis for Strengthening Internationalism

Resistance in south Korea
• South Koreans Defend Democracy Against U.S.-Organized Attacks
• South Korean Celebration of June 15 Declaration
• UNSC Retract “Resolution on Sanctions” against DPRK
• South Korean Government Denounced for Joining the
Proliferation Security Initiative

Reference Materials
• Joint Vision for the Alliance of the U.S. and the Republic Of Korea — The White House, June 16, 2009
• UN Security Council Resolution 1874 for Sanctions Against the DPRK
• Top U.S. Diplomat in Asia Dictates Terms to DPRK

Article Update - June 10 , 2009

Normalize Relations with Cuba
• End the Blockade Against Cuba Now! Free the Cuban Five!
• Summit of Indigenous Peoples Demands U.S. End Blockade of Cuba
• 20th Pastors for Peace Caravan to Cuba Opposes Blockade
• Cuba Caravan Materials to Contribute
• Demonstrate to Free the Cuban Five!
• Upcoming Events to Free the Five
• Obama Grant Visas for the Cuban 5 Families
• Obama Could and Should Withdraw the False Charges Against the Five

Cuba Vindicated by OAS Vote
• Declaration of the Revolutionary Government of Cuba
• Cuba, the U.S. and the OAS

Article Update - June 8, 2009

Viva Puerto Rico Libre!
• End Colonization of Puerto Rico Now! Free All Political Prisoners Now!

• All Puerto Rico for Puerto Rico
• Rally Defends Puerto Rican Patriots
• Letter to Obama: We Are the Puerto Rican People
• Statement of the Six Puerto Rican Protesters
• Free Carlos Alberto Torres Now — Prolebertadweb.com
• Message from Carlos Alberto Torres on the Occasion of El Grito de Lares
• For Your Information: Puerto Rican Political Prisoners — Prolibertadweb.com

Article Update - June 5, 2009

U.S. Threatens Peace and Democracy
• Oppose U.S.-Israeli Interference in Elections in Lebanon and Iran
• U.S. is Biggest Threat to World Peace! Reject War Hysteria Using Threat of Nuclear Weapons
• Vice President Biden Visits Lebanon
• U.S. Official Attempts to Influence Outcome of Lebanese Elections
• Israeli Military Holds Drill Simulating All-Out War
• Hezbollah Will Take Precautions During Israeli Maneuvers
• Nasrallah: Der Spiegel and Israel Teamed for Murder
• Remarks by President Obama During Visit of Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu
• Obama’s Appointment of McChrystal Shows Embrace of Military Conquests and Empire Building

Article Update - June 3, 2009

Salute Rejection of U.S. Dictate
• Salute OAS Vote Handing a Defeat to U.S. Dictate
and Annexationist Aims
• OAS Revokes Resolution Excluding Cuba
• OAS Resolution Demonstrates We Are Not U.S. Colonies Anymore
• The OAS is an Instrument of the U.S. to Dominate Latin America
• ALBA Demonstrates that Another World is Possible
• U.S. Stand on OAS Resolution Lifting Ban on Cuba's Participation
• OAS Crisis of Legitimacy
• The Trojan Horse — Fidel Castro, June 2, 2009
• The OAS, an Unburied Political Cadaver and Hillary Clinton’s Retrograde Thinking — Alberto N. Jones, June 3, 2009

Article Update - June 1, 2009

• The Shameful History of the OAS — Oscar Sánchez Serra, Granma International, May 2009

Article Update - May 28, 2009

Normalize Relations with DPRK
• Hands Off Korea!
• DPRK Conducts Underground Nuclear Test
• DPRK Condemns South Korea’s Membership in Proliferation Security Initiative
• South Korea's Full Participation in PSI is a Declaration of War Against the DPRK
• U.S. Hostile Policy toward DPRK
• Understanding and Ending the Conflict in Korea — Eric Sirotkin, Chair National Lawyers Guild Korean Peace Project
• Our Task of Reunification is Urgent — Christine Ahn, National Campaign to End the Korean War
• Hands Off the Movement for Korean Reunification!
• South Koreans Oppose Suppression of Pro-Reunification Organizations
• Violation of Human Rights in South Korea: Open Letter from Korean Democratic Lawyers Association
• Text of North-South Joint Declaration

Article Update - May 25, 2009

Healthcare is a Right!
• Swine Flu Outbreak
• Mexico: The Influenza Epidemic and Self-Sufficiency in Healthcare — Teixitiani, Mexteki.org
• Industrial Hog Farming Is Just Like Wall Street — Washington’s Blog
• Who benefits from the H1N1 influenza virus epidemic?— Red Voltaire, Granma International
• Reflections on the Swine Flu Epidemic — Fausto Paz, APIA Virtual
• Flying Pigs, Tamiflu and Factory Farms — F. William Engdahl, Global Research
• Department of Defense Funding for “Human Terrain Mapping” in Mexico — Simón Sedillo April 16, 2009

Article Update - May 15, 2009

End U.S. Support for Israel! End the Occupation Now!
• Palestinians Mark Nakba Day by Demanding Their Right to Return
• New Orleans Delegation Heads to Gaza — nolahumanrights.org
• Seventh Annual International Al-Awda — Palestine Right of Return Convention
• The Old Still Live Through Us, the Young Will Never Forget — Reham Alhelsi, Palestinian Mothers
• War Crimes Against Palestinian Children — Palestinian Center for Human Rights
• Billions Promised, but Gazans Still Waiting
• Resistance to Continued Blockade of Gaza

Article Update - May 13, 2009

Stop All War Funding
• Demand Congress Stop All War Funding! Stop U.S. Killings and Displacement of Civilians Now
• IVAW Demonstrates Against War Funding — IVAW.org
• Get Out of Iraq, Get Out Afghanistan, Come Home, America — Dennis Kucinich
• War Funding: Appearance of Reductions Hide Reality of More War
• President Obama's War Budget — Jeff Leys, May 4, 2009

Afghanistan and Pakistan: Stop Killings and Displacement of Civilians
• Pragmatism: A Philosophy of Monopoly Capitalism, Fascism and War
• Obama, Pakistan, and the Rule of Law — Peter Dyer, May 13, 2009
• The Drones Are Coming: New War on Civilians — Ramzy Baroud, May 14, 2009

Article Update - May 11, 2009

Education is a Right
• Stimulus Package Education Funds: Carrots, Sticks and the Crisis of Legitimacy
• Arne Duncan on Using “Carrots and Sticks” to Increase Federal Control of Local Schools
• Educational Provisions of the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act
• Exterminating Public Schools in the U.S.

Article Update - May 7, 2009

May Day 2009
• Workers and Peoples Worldwide Demonstrate for Rights
• Canada: Steelworkers Hold May Day Rally and March in Hamilton, Canada
• Workers and Oppressed Peoples of All Countries, Unite! — Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist)
• Mexico: The Working Class will Build the Future — México Tekizetiliztli
• Cuba: The Inalienable Decision to Build Socialism — Salvador Valdés Mesa, General Secretary, Cuban Workers Federation

Article Update - May 4, 2009

May Day 2009
• Workers and Peoples of All Countries Demonstrate for Rights (photos)

Article Update - April 23, 2009

Seventh ALBA Summit
• Capitalism is Putting an End to Humanity and the Planet
• Only Unity Will Set Us Free
• Cuba Reaffirms Stand in Solidarity with the Peoples of the Americas
• South American Nations Meet in Venezuela to Lay Foundation for Bank of the South

Article Update - April 20, 2009

Fourth Peoples' Summit
• Peoples’ Summit of the Americas
• No More Exclusion, Neoliberalism, “Free Trade”or Militarization
• For a New Economic Model Based on Mutual Benefit
• Message to North American Leaders Attending the Fifth Summit of the Americas
• Open Letter to President Obama Regarding the Fifth Summit of the Americas
• Puerto Rican Activist Blocked from Participation in Peoples’ Summit

Article Update - April 13, 2009

Education is a Right
• Education is A Right, Not a Dream
• KIPP Charter Schools: Attacking Rights in the Name of "Closing the Achievement Gap"
• The Duncan Doctrine: The Military-Corporate Legacy of the New Secretary of Education — Andrew Kroll, TomDispatch.com
• Duncan’s Record in Chicago Shows: People Must Step Up the Fight for Public Control of Education — Pauline Lipman, Teachers for Social Justice, Chicago

Article Update - April 6, 2009

Dismantle NATO Now!
• World Says No to Imperialist War and Demands Alternatives (photos)

Article Update - April 3, 2009

G-20 Summit in Britain
• Mass Demonstrations Demand Human-Centered Alternatives to the Crisis
• Global Economic Crisis and Disequilibrium within the Imperialist System of States
• G20 Actions Against War: G20 Meltdown
• April 1 & 2: Protest at London G20 Summit - Stop the War Coalition, Britain

Article Update - March 30 , 2009

• Land Day 2009: Palestinians Rooted and Resisting

• A Doctor from Galilee Speaks to Significance of Land Day
— Jonathan Cook writing from Arrabeh, The Electronic Intifada, March 30, 2009
• Here We Shall Remain
• Deir Hannon Commemorates Land Day
• Israelis, Internationals Join Palestinian Protest Against Jerusalem Home Demolitions — March 29, 2009
• Israeli Committee Calls for an Immediate End to House Demolitions — Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions, March 20, 2009
• Activists Confront AIPAC Donors with Checkpoint Outside Fundraiser — Ad-hoc Coalition for Justice in the Middle East, March 11, 2009
• Call to Action Against Israel’s War on Palestine — American Jews for Justice
• The Haverford Campaign Calls for Divestment from Israel — Nathan Karnovsky, Bi-College News, February 24, 2009
• Palestinian Land Day Celebrated as Part of March 30 Global Action Day to Boycott, Divest and Sanction Israel — Global Boycott, Divest and Sanction Israel Movement

Article Update - March 27, 2009

• Actions Across the Country and Worldwide Demand U.S. End Wars and Occupations Now! (report and photos)

Article Update - March 23, 2009

DC March 21 Protest
• All U.S. Troops Home Now! End U.S. Imperialist Wars and Occupations Now! (photos)

Article Update - March 18, 2009

Sixth Anniversary of Iraq Invasion
All Out For Anti-War Actions!

USMLO Salutes All the Anti-War Activists!

• All Out for Anti-War Actions!
• Vigorously Oppose U.S. War Hysteria
• Anti-war Forces Call for National and Local Actions
• Local Actions Across the Country
• Jam Up the War Machine — Cindy Sheehan
• End the Occupations of Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine! Stop the Government’s War on Immigrants! — Chicago Anti War and Immigrant Rights Coalition
• Chicago Activists Score Win Against Daley Administration Over Right to March
• Bring All Our Troops Home From Iraq Now! — Military Families Speak Out
• Veterans Say Leaving 50,000 Troops in Iraq is No “Withdrawal” — Veterans for Peace
• I Am the Anti-war Movement — Dustin Alan Parks, Iraq Veterans Against the War
• G20 Actions Against War — G20 Meltdown
• Protest at London G20 Summit — Stop the War Coalition, Britain

Article Update - March 10, 2009

U.S. & Israel Have a Duty to Fund Gaza Reconstruction
• Defend Palestine’s Right to Be
• Palestinian Forces Organizing to Develop Unity Government
— Palestine Information Center March 1, 2009
• Hamas:Rebuilding Gaza Is a Humanitarian Mission and Should Not Be Politicized
• UN Envoy Says Gaza Borders Must Open

Oppose Israeli Apartheid
• Standing United with the People of Gaza
• Bil’in Residents and International Activists Oppose Apartheid Wall
• General Strike Opposes Planned Evictions
• Defending Palestinian Homes in Jerusalem — Joharah Baker
• U.S. Trade Unionists Support South African and Australian Dockers’ Boycott of Israeli Cargo

U.S. Divide and Conquer Efforts
• U.S. Military Training Palestinians in West Bank
• Did Clinton Sabotage a Palestinian Reconciliation? —Hasan Abu Nimah and Ali Abunimah, Electronic Intifada, March 4, 2009

Article Update - March 6, 2009

International Women’s Day 2009
• Support the Struggle of Women in Defense of the Rights of All!
• International Women’s Day Event in U.S.
• Tenth Global Women’s Strike
• Some Facts on Conditions of Women

Article Update - February 27, 2009

• Stop Deportations of Haitians! Legalization Now!
• Letter to Department of Homeland Security Demanding Equal Rights for Haitians — Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network
• Petition Demands: Stand with People of Haiti
• U.S. Discriminatory Immigration Policies Toward Haitians

Salute to the Haitian People
• The Rebirth of Konbit in Haiti — Kevin Pina, Haiti Information Project
• Haiti: Racism and Poverty — John Maxwell
• Haiti is All of Us! — U.S. Political Prisoner Jalil Muntaqim, August 20, 2008
• Haiti - 5 Years After the Coup
• House Bill To Establish the Independent Commission on the 2004 Coup d’Etat in the Republic of Haiti

Article Update - February 9, 2009

U.S. and the Rule of Law
• The U.S. and the Rule of Law
• U.S. Bagram Prison Camp and Government Renditions
• Attorney General Indicates Possibility of New Guantánamo Inside the U.S.
• Obama Administration Should Renounce Unconstitutional Policy of Indefinite Detention — The Constitution Project
• Close Torture Loopholes, Physicians' Group Urges — William Fisher
• President Obama, Close Angola Prison — Jordan Flaherty

For Your Information
• Executive Orders Concerning Guantánamo
• The Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri Case — Brennan Center for Justice
• Geneva Conventions Common Article Three
• U.S. Constitution on Courts, Prisons and Cruel and Unusual Punishment

Article Update - January 21, 2009

• Obama's Ascension to Power

Article Update - January 11, 2009

World's People Demand:
• Gaza's Blood on U.S. Hands! Resistance is a Right!
Stop the Killing, Stop the Crimes, Israel Out of Palestine! (photos U.S.)

Article Update - January 1, 2009

Actions Worldwide Say:
No to U.S.-Israeli War Crimes! All Out to Support the Resistance!
• U.S. Actions
• Worldwide Actions

Article Update - December 30, 2008

Resistance Mounts to U.S.-Israeli Crimes
• Oppose U.S.-Israeli Crimes in Gaza! Resolutely Defend the Rights of Palestinians! Stop Funding U.S.-Israeli Genocide!
• Palestinians in Israel Declare Strike, Call for Boycott
• Lebanon's Nasrallah Condemns Israeli Assault
• Vicious Folly of a Bankrupt Government
• U.S.-Israeli War Crime of Targeting Civilian Infrastructure Professor Abdelwahed, Gaza
• “Fight for Justice and Peoples’ Rights”
• Israeli Navy Rams Civilian Ship Bringing Medicine and Humanitarian Aid to Gaza

Article Update - December 29, 2008

Bombings of Gaza
• Condemn U.S.-Israeli War Crimes Against Palestine! End All U.S. Funding for Israel! All Out to Support the Resistance!
• Protests Defend Palestine and Condemn U.S.-Israeli Crimes Against Gaza

Article Update - December 8, 2008

Discussion on Where Obama is Headed
• Develop the Independent Politics of the Working Class
• Obama Establishes Economic Recovery Advisory Board
• Obama’s Economic Team: Geithner, Summers and Orszag
• Brief Descriptions of Treasury, NEC, OMB
• Information About the Presidential Transition Period
• Important Dates for the Presidential Transition Period

For Your Information
• Government Prepared to Lend $7.4 Trillion
• Trend of Rich Getting Richer and Poor Poorer Intensifying
• Ohio School District Seeks $100 Million Federal Bailout
• Will Any Crumbs Remain After Bankers’ Feast?
• For Obama, a Chance to Push Big Changes

Free All Political Prisoners!
• Crime Against Humanity
• Free Mumia Abu-Jamal

Article Update - December 1, 2008

Human Needs Are Human Rights
• Our Security Lies in Our Fight for the Rights of All
• Massive Job Losses
• Youth Among Those Hardest Hit by Recession
• Hunger Worsens as Government Food Programs Fail to Meet Needs
• U.S. Infant Mortality Rate Worsens Relative to Other Countries